Category: Mix
A friend recently forwarded me an email I sent to him in 2004. It was part of conversation about where…
This is the best argument I’ve come across for why git is special and worth your time. I’ve seen glimpses…
This is one of the best refutations of the standard creationist arguments I’ve seen in a short video format. Combined…
The subject of character mapping and encoding is formidable, and many confuse the various schemes and standards available. As a…
I lack the words, but I don’t need them. I sometimes realize that I’m hesitant to talk about my love…
I inwardly smile when I hear the term “Unified Threat Management”. It means different things to different people, but to…
So everyone knows that UTF-8 encodes Unicode code points into eight bits, and UTF-16 encodes Unicode code points into 16…
A friend of mine (I’ll identify him if he so desires) sent me the following email: I think this is…
The über-tech-geek culture has a problem with tool obsession. Twitter, Friendfeed, Google Reader–these are all basics, but each of these…
This is an exciting protocol. I want to use it to get my various services’ content into Friendfeed, and to…
Scenario You have an Asterisk server behind a Check Point firewall trying to contact a VOIP provider located on the…
Evidently I’m not the only one who’s seeing what’s happening. I’ve been writing for years about how we’re approaching a…